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ygralast Sunday at 4:35 AM1 replyview on HN

> Where is Windows' equivalent of APFS / BTRFS (or even EXT4)..? NTFS is more than 20 years old by now.

There's ReFS, but a lot of NTFS features are basically baked into the filesystem API, so replacing it is hard.

That being said, NTFS works extremely well and reliable. I don't really see a compelling need to replace it (which is always a messy transition unless you're completely backwards-compatible -- but in that case, NTFS has evolved a lot already).


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theodriclast Sunday at 7:47 AM

Our culture is to replace working things purely because they're old. Solved problem? Never heard of her.

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